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EA Sports found a song that sounds eerily similar to Enter Sandman for Virginia Tech’s entrance

That might be TOO close actually.

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Metallica's Self-Titled Album Hits 750 Weeks On Billboard 200.

Metallica's 'The Black Album' spends 750 weeks on Billboard 200, solidifying its status as one of the longest-charting releases in American history.

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See first photos of Metallica’s James Hetfield in new western thriller The Thicket

The Metallica man previously acted opposite Zac Efron in Ted Bundy biopic Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil And Vile

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“Nu metal? No guitar solos! Everyone played with their pants down round their ankles… It was a bleak period, but we came through it”: how Megadeth kicked off the 2010s with the blazing Th1rt3en album

In 2011, Dave Mustaine invited Metal Hammer into his inner sanctum

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“Americans tried to write songs and harmonies. We didn’t care about that. We just wanted to be filthy!”: the snarling, savage story of German thrash

Metallica and Slayer grabbed the headlines, but they couldn’t match Germany’s Kreator, Sodom or Destruction for filthy viciousness

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“It’s almost like we’re so preposterously uncool that somehow we became cool”: the turbulent story of Dream Theater’s Images And Words, the album that changed the face of prog metal

The turbulent story of Dream Theater’s Images And Words, the album that changed the face of prog metal

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“I went out in the crowd of 40,000 people to try and beat somebody up”: Robert Trujillo compares supporting Metallica and Guns ’N’ Roses in the ’90s

Metallica’s bassist supported two of the biggest bands in hard rock during his time in Suicidal Tendencies

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“Sometimes, I take it off after the first 10 seconds, and other times, I listen to it to the end”: Metallica’s classic producer reveals up-and-down relationship with St Anger

Ride The Lightning, Master Of Puppets and …And Justice For All producer Flemming Rasmussen offers his assessment of Metallica’s controversial 2003 album

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“He had this ’65 Firebird III hanging on the wall. It was one of the best guitars I’d ever played. Some weeks later, I dreamed about it. I was like, ‘That’s the Holy Grail!’” DeWolff’s Pablo van de Poel on the quest to land his literal dream guitar

The Dutch psych-rock maestro checks in to show us his guitars and in the process makes us A) want a Firebird and B) wonder if it's time to have three fuzz pedals on our pedalboards

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"The amount of sugar in the lyrics could kill a whole army": Winger attempt to tweak the hard rock formula on their debut album with mixed results

A more serious proposition than many of the Sunset Strip generation, Winger's debut combined melodic hooks with no small amount of technical skill

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“I believe we’ve made a huge leap forward this time. This is our Radiohead moment!”: how Iron Maiden made a 21st century masterpiece with A Matter Of Life And Death

In this classic Metal Hammer interview, Bruce Dickinson and Steve Harris reveal the story behind Iron Maiden’s 2006 album A Matter Of Life And Death

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“We walk into this music store, and the owner is making sure we didn't turn up with a lawyer – and then Robert Trujillo came in and saved the day!” The amazing story of how Jaco's Bass Of Doom made its way back to Felix Pastorius

Stolen in 1982, the bass vanished from the public eye until 2006 when it resurfaced in a New York music store

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“I was so difficult to deal with, but I wasn’t the only one in the band doing something that they shouldn’t have been doing”: how Deftones rose above turmoil and tragedy with Diamond Eyes

Deftones are one of modern metal‘s most acclaimed bands – and its most turbulent

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“They had spoken to me also. Who knows what was going on in their minds?” Michael Anthony says he and ex-Metallica bassist Jason Newsted were both approached for the failed Van Halen reunion

Newsted turned heads in 2022 when he claimed he was in line to join a Van Halen reunion tour – but now Anthony has revealed he was in the running for it, too

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35 years later, James Hetfield is still amazed by Metallica’s pyro before playing One

Footage of Metallica’s singer/guitarist reacting to their stadium-sized firework show has gone viral

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"Lars smiled: 'What do you think?' 'You need more guitar solos, that’s for sure.'" How Metallica kickstarted thrash metal and changed the game forever with a "sloppy" little demo track called Hit The Lights

With Hit The Lights, Metallica found their first signature song and a track that'd have a profound effect on heavy metal's evolution

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"Good God!" Watch pro-shot footage of Metallica performing Ride The Lightning in Copenhagen

The M72 world tour thunders on but Metallica took Ride The Lightning back to where it began 40 years ago

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Watch Metallica's James Hetfield and Judas Priest's Rob Halford rocking out together while watching Turnstile at Norway's Tons Of Rock Festival this past weekend

Two heavy metal icons enjoyed watching one of modern heavy music's most exciting bands together!

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“He got me in a headlock and started punching me. We just went at it”: the explosive story of Dokken, the hard rock band that tore itself apart

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“We were sleeping on the floor, stealing food, stealing bikes”: Metallica turned to “thieving” to survive the early ’80s, says James Hetfield

While recording at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen, Metallica had to “borrow [things] forever” to make ends meet

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Watch Metallica cover Diamond Head’s Am I Evil? with Diamond Head’s guitarist, Brian Tatler

Tatler joined the heavy metal superstars onstage at Oslo’s Tons Of Rock festival yesterday

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Rock Band Metallica's X Account Hacked To Promote Scam $METAL Token

Following this year's high-profile exploit of the MicroStrategy X account, popular heavy metal band Metallica's handle was compromised by hackers who promoted a fake token that is said to have resulted in losses to crypto users who bought the scam coin.

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“There aren’t many bassists that could do this job. Playing with Metallica is the most demanding gig there is”: Robert Trujillo reflects on the legacy of Jason Newsted and Cliff Burton

If you know your Metallica history, you’ll know that Robert Trujillo is the fourth player to fill the Metallica bass role

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“If it was up to me, I’d make it the Big Five”: why Testament deserve to be at thrash’s top table

Testament’s 2012 album Dark Roots Of Earth was another classic from thrash’s most dependable band

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"We need more Bowies, more Princes, more Eazy-Es." Fever 333's Jason Aalon Butler talks dream collabs, the legacy of Letlive. and the stunt that got him told off by Metallica's crew

Fever 333 frontman Jason Aalon Butler answers your questions on everything from stunts to activism, influences and whether he'd rather fight a dinosaur or a chicken

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